“Go Box”

  The “Go Box” is an “office on wheels” that can be removed quickly from the building in case of evacuation. Stock it as part of the emergency plan and update it frequently, making sure all lists and materials are current. The box should be easily accessible, and members of the Incident Command System team should know where it is stored and be assigned the duty of removing it. In a large school, you may want to have several boxes located in different areas of the building.

Items in the “Go Box” should include:

• Two-way radios
• Portable, battery-powered radio with extra batteries
• Flashlights with extra batteries
• Bullhorn
• Pens, pencils, notepads
• Building master keys
• Clinic box: student medical needs list, first aid supplies
• Student emergency cards with parent contact information
• Class and room lists (where specific students and teachers are located each time period of the school day)
• Staff home/cell phone directory
• Central office staff phone numbers
• Home phone numbers of key central staff
• Building map/floor plan
• Site plan of the grounds and adjacent facilities
• Locations of emergency shutoffs (water, electrical) inside and outside the building
• Chemical inventory — what is stored and where it is stored in the building